§ COLONEL DENNY (Kilmarnock Burghs)I beg to ask the Lord Advocate, in the event of a check-weigher at a colliery being injured while in the course of his employment, from whom would he claim compensation, seeing he is an employee of the men and not of the colliery owner?
§ THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. GRAHAM MURRAY,) ButeshireI fear I must decline to give my honourable Friend a legal opinion upon a hypothetical case in reply to a Question in this House. If the case arises in practice the point must be settled in the law courts.